Twitter is aflame once again with fiery accusations of antisemitism. As if we hadn’t all enjoyed the thoroughly edifying earlier instalments of this particular three, five, ten-act play? Forgive my cynicism but my initial reaction to this and previous variations on this theme is that many involved don’t give a […]
The last week has certainly changed the political landscape in Britain for at least the next generation. My aim here is not to discuss the referendum or to try to summarise the many implications of the result. Instead, like many other discussions and pieces of writing right now, this piece […]
Two issues of the OT were produced in 2015: Discipline, States, Borders (#27) and Militant Care (#28), as well as other content published as online-only pieces. The publication is produced in common by the OT collective, and relies on the voluntary efforts of its contributors, as well as everyone who […]
Three issues of the OT were produced in 2014: The Politics of Madness (#24), Art & Gentrification (#25) and Apocalypse Νow? (#26). The publication is produced in common by the OT collective, and relies on the voluntary efforts of its contributors, as well as everyone who reads, shares, distributes, prints […]
The Occupy movement was not, initially, about land. It was about the economy, democracy, justice and climate change. It was about bank bonuses, public service cuts and being the change we wanted to see. It was also about joining the dots between apparently disparate issues and, recently, the realisation has […]
Some languages have a word for the wisdom that comes with looking back at an event. The nearest equivalent in English is ‘hindsight’, but the meaning in this context should be clear: Occupy London is no longer what it set out to be. A liberal wave has washed out the […]
The far right never really left politics. Though we are far removed from the mass fascist and Nazi movements of the 1930s, recent events in Europe and beyond show that their underlying potential was never quite expelled from the world. What we see today is a resurfacing and restructuring of […]
While the occupation at St Paul’s outlived most in the US, the movement here remains in the shadow of Occupy Wall Street. For OWS, the eviction of the camps turned out to be a blessing. Instead of focusing on site management and internal politics, occupiers were given an opportunity to […]
Two direct actions in three nights. Both started out from Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan, and both were ostensibly in solidarity with the huge mobilisation of protesters in Québec against raised tuition fees and the commodification of education. The two protests were quite different in nature but both revealed […]
Gravity, they say, is a natural consequence of the presence of matter. What mattered, at first, was occupying the London Stock Exchange; and gravitate towards it we did. With society cast adrift on the rising tides of austerity, a dialogue born of civil disobedience would counter the current. What began […]